Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing.It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.(voice-over) But why? Why would God choose an obscene child to be His instrument? BackgroundAll Quiet on the Western Front(1930) is the first major anti-war film of the sound era, faithfully based upon the timeless, best-selling 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque (who had experienced the war first-hand as a young German soldier).The film opens on the hottest day of the summer of 1944.The narration reveals that the story takes place in the recent past, at the time of ""Laura""s"" death:I shall never forget the weekend Laura died.The scene transitioned to the one of Kristen in the film""s opening sequence in her bedroom when her mother interrupted her while she was constructing the paper mache house.As she auditioned with her first song: "Dinah" in the frontier honky-tonk - assisted by the saloon""s piano player Joe (Jimmy Conlin), her refined soprano voice was out of place and she was not appreciated by the uncouth and boisterous patrons.[Official police policy was "to arrest the vigilante known as Batman on sight."]While Wayne Manor was being rebuilt, Bruce Wayne lived in a city penthouse and centered his operations in an underground Batbunker, where he discussed Dent with his butler Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine): "I need to know if he can be trusted.